a small bird standing on top of a sandy beach

WILD THINGS: KEY WEST WILDLIFE COLUMN

Science cannot always explain what a bird is up to. This came to mind the other day when I walked down the nature trail next to the 1800...
John Bartus

JOHN BARTUS: DRIVING TO THE AIRPORT IN 1980, WITH A SENATOR IN THE BACK...

Way back when, in the halcyon days of youth (if that isn’t a literary cliché), there I was: an almost-19-year-old college student at the University of South...
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2024 BUBBA AWARDS MARK ANOTHER BANNER YEAR

That’s a wrap.  The 2024 Bubbas: Key West People’s Choice Awards celebrated its 11th year on July 20, honoring 91 local businesses, people and nonprofits for their commitment...

ISLAND ASTROLOGY: THE WEEK’S HOROSCOPES

HAPPY HERMES, THE ISLAND ASTROLOGER: Check In, Turn Out The sun entered Leo in the wee hours of the morning July 22, and we’ve officially left the “protect-your-feelings”...
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MILE MAKERS: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IS A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR AMY POPE

Many in the public do not realize the myriad of duties and effort it takes to accomplish what each person does to serve, produce, persuade, write, repair,...
a man and a woman sitting on top of a moon

REEL RECS: ROAD MOVIE PAIRS A DISGRUNTLED ADULT WITH A PRECOCIOUS CHILD

WHY: This is probably the textbook example of a road movie pairing a disgruntled adult with a precocious child. Ryan O’Neal and his daughter Tatum O’Neal have...
a man standing in front of a wall covered in graffiti

NEIGHBOR OF THE WEEK: EMILIO MARIN

No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our community members who deserve...
a white bird standing in front of a house

WILD THINGS: ‘GRADY GRITS’ AND THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION

It had been a long, crazy week, and I spent most of Sunday on the couch. For a while I watched men ride bicycles up Alpine passes,...
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PEAK PURSUITS: LITERARY ADVENTURES IN HIKING, RAFTING AND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

In Beauty May She Walk By Leslie Mass Turning 60 was a pivotal time in Leslie’s life. A college professor and part of a large family, she had always...
John Bartus

JOHN BARTUS: AMERICA, WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS

Here is the text with the line breaks fixed: I was playing my gig at Boardwalk on Big Pine Key last Saturday when I started seeing a repeated...

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